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Sympathetic Portrayal Of Germans?

posted 14 years ago by Erik-Bloodaxe
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I'm just watching this on TV and I guess I will probably get flamed for asking but why does this movie portray the Germans in such a sympathetic light? They seem to be the kind of guys you would want to have a beer with rather than the usual cardboard cutouts you see in most WW2 movies. How come?

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[–] strntz (12773) a year ago

..I guess I will probably get flamed for asking but why does this movie portray the Germans in such a sympathetic light?

I think it's less a sympathetic portrayal and more just showing young men who were fighting (however incorrectly) for their homeland.

It would have been inaccurate to show all the German pilots as all rabid death machines.